diff --git a/api/Protobuild.toml b/api/Protobuild.toml
index 71776052c..9920fd581 100644
--- a/api/Protobuild.toml
+++ b/api/Protobuild.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 version = "2"
-generators = ["go", "go-grpc"]
+generators = ["go", "go-grpc", "go-ttrpc"]
 
 # Control protoc include paths. Below are usually some good defaults, but feel
 # free to try it without them if it works for your project.
@@ -18,14 +18,23 @@ generators = ["go", "go-grpc"]
 [packages]
   "google/rpc/status.proto" = "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc/status"
 
+[parameters.go-ttrpc]
+prefix = "TTRPC"
+
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = ["github.com/containerd/containerd/api/events"]
 generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc", "go-fieldpath"]
 
+[overrides.parameters.go-ttrpc]
+prefix = ""
+
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = ["github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/ttrpc/events/v1"]
 generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc"]
 
+[overrides.parameters.go-ttrpc]
+prefix = ""
+
 [[overrides]]
 # enable ttrpc and disable fieldpath and grpc for the shim
 prefixes = [
@@ -33,24 +42,21 @@ prefixes = [
 ]
 generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc"]
 
+[overrides.parameters.go-ttrpc]
+prefix = ""
+
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = [
   "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/sandbox/v1",
 ]
 generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc", "go-grpc"]
 
-[overrides.parameters.go-ttrpc]
-prefix = "TTRPC"
-
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = [
   "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/task/v3",
 ]
 generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc", "go-grpc"]
 
-[overrides.parameters.go-ttrpc]
-prefix = "TTRPC"
-
 # Aggregrate the API descriptors to lock down API changes.
 [[descriptors]]
 prefix = "github.com/containerd/containerd/api"
diff --git a/script/setup/install-dev-tools b/script/setup/install-dev-tools
index 666352636..038baa489 100755
--- a/script/setup/install-dev-tools
+++ b/script/setup/install-dev-tools
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ go install github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2@v2.0.2
 go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@v1.54.2
 go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.28
 go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@v1.2
-go install github.com/containerd/ttrpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-ttrpc@5cc9169d1fc1a8292866224ae09dc47827801874
+go install github.com/containerd/ttrpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-ttrpc@faba5896a9c4d7b65495cb9b2c02531feb1434d6